Any external security agency would avoid using it’s own native born nationals on physically risky operations as it’s just common sense: you don’t want to risk ‘your people’. They’ve years of expensive training and heads full of knowledge that you’d rather not be shared.

Going to foreign countries to carry out operations where there’s a high chance of being caught would normally be delegated to sympathetic local groups – unless there’s no alternative. It’s a matter of human resources in the main.

The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists was most likely carried out by local people who may or may not have known who they’re working for. Conversely the Dubai murder must have been a matter of taking an opportunity as it arose, and in the process curtailing the careers of a dozen or so Israeli Mossad agents, courtesy of CCTV.

Zygier’s tragic case is interesting in that he had dual nationality. Mossad would likely be making use of this and his ability to run a seemingly legitimate business. Whilst many foreign governments were non too pleased about the use of their passports in the Dubai case, this wouldn’t have been enough to keep an Israeli citizen incommunicado and without proper legal representation.

The vast majority of ‘spy’ work for actual national security agency employees involves the mundane: sitting behind a computer or sitting behind a the desk of a private company. I’d think Zygier was more being paid by Mossad to do a task, rather than working as an agent in the way members of the Dubai team were.

I’d say Zygier’s role would have been more akin to a paid police informant rather than an actual police officer. That would make him much more dispensable.

Still, it says little about what job Mossad had tasked him to do, though it does give an idea of how he could be locked up so easily.

So one mystery may have been sold – see headline in Haaretz: his family was promised millions of shekels in compensation and the agreement was “signed” 6 weeks ago? so their silence has been bought? that’s it? get paid and move on? does it look to anyone else like a bribe? am I supposed to be sympathetic?

And what of the Australian family? how much are they going to get paid to make up for the “pain and suffering”? are they going to be paid? will the Jewish community in Australia, now totally under a cloud of “dual loyalty” be compensated? would a few millions be enough to “lift the cloud”?

in case anyone doubts there’s a cloud – what would YOU think if you meet a young-ish Australian or new Zelander or English person who immigrated to israel? say someone who is not particularly orthodox? would you perhaps exercise just a bit of caution dealing with them?

And how much is an Australian passport worth anyways? perhaps it might have lost some of its luster?

Sorry, but it’s very very hard not to be a bit cynical about the entire affair, and its implications.

There are indications that things could be much much worse in Australia, as far as the cover-up of this case goes. And there was cover-up in Australia – information was squashed, and did not get passed on. ASIO may well have been told to “back off’ its investigation. This is very serious business making the charge of dual loyalty” hang like a sword over the entire Jewish community in Australia. there must have been very deep influence peddling, pressure on diplomatic and political channels and who knows what else to keep this case under wraps. just think – Ben Zeiger’s father was at the head of one of the key Jewish Lobby organizations in Australia. To find that their son died under the circumstances he did – killed or driven to death by the so-called “Jewish” state (really more of a mafiosi vision of it) must be devastating. No wonder they went into seclusion.

There is probably worry – not without reason – that this could expose a web of influence peddling among Australia’s best connected and wealthiest jewish families that can only give a very bad name to the entire community – highly unfairly, since most Australian jewish people have no intention of becoming sayanim enablers.

So Israeli bloodthirstyness has led to the death of another Jew.

“gag orders on new information mean I cannot even report the hints of rumours floating about, or to use them to counterbalance or challenge the picture I presented above” : Security has no trump. It makes the constitution. You are secure because you are told you are. Critical inquiry is an indulgence for children. The Iran threat has come home to roost.